บท 10: Magic?
In fact, Yuan Qinyu's method was quite simple. He referred to the way prisons managed prisoners and summarized it into a twenty-word policy: separate detention, mutual management, coercion and temptation, sowing discord, and undermining unity.
After a period of observation, Yuan Qinyu selected several individuals from the captives and detained them separately. One by one, they were interrogated. At first, these captives were quite stubborn, often claiming that they would never betray their empire for the glory of the empire. However, Yuan Qinyu and the other interrogators were not swayed by such rhetoric. They simply locked these captives in makeshift dark rooms, isolating them from the outside world. At first, the captives mocked the special detachment, questioning their ability to extract information. But after a few days, they began to regret their defiance, crying out for release from the darkness, even if it meant enduring daily whippings.
Wang Dahai initially laughed at the captives, thinking them cowardly for fearing a dark room, especially since the traditional interrogation methods of whips, chili peppers, and tiger benches had yet to be employed. However, after Yuan Qinyu explained his strategy, Wang Dahai sucked his teeth and remarked, "Four Eyes, you scholars are truly ruthless!"
Yuan Qinyu's explanation was straightforward: he simply exploited the human fear of confined spaces. Once the captives were isolated in the dark rooms, they were cut off from the outside world, alone in the darkness. Initially, they managed, but as time wore on, anxiety set in. When the captives finally succumbed to exhaustion and tried to sleep, Yuan Qinyu and his team intensified their suffering. They secretly installed high-powered incandescent lights and loudspeakers in each room. As soon as the captives began to doze off, the lights would blaze and the speakers would blast deafening metal music. This cycle continued until the captives were utterly broken.
Eventually, they spilled all the intelligence the special detachment wanted to know. When these captives were released and recounted their experiences, the dark room became infamous throughout the camp, a synonym for terror. From then on, any captive who resisted would immediately comply when threatened with the dark room.
From the captives, they learned that their forces were a coalition of the empire and several duchies, including Gise, Ruhr, and Bavaria. There were tensions between some of the duchies, and the imperial troops looked down on the others. Within the ranks, nobles and commoners also despised each other. Armed with this information, Yuan Qinyu smiled sinisterly.
He organized the captives into several camps, placing those from feuding duchies together. Each camp had management staff, also composed of captives from antagonistic duchies, and a few imperial noble officers were chosen as camp leaders.
Yuan Qinyu also manipulated the distribution of food, sometimes giving more to the soldiers of Gise, other times to the imperial soldiers. This caused immediate unrest in the camps. With pre-existing animosities, being confined together was a recipe for conflict. Why should you get more food than me? Fights frequently broke out over rations, with the imperial soldiers often bearing the brunt of the violence, as they were used to their superior status and were now just prisoners.
When Yuan Qinyu heard of this, he simply laughed, saying let them fight amongst themselves, it would expend their energy.
A few days later, Yuan Qinyu established some rules for the camp, stating that fighting was strictly prohibited. To get more and better food, one had to work. He carefully designed a point system; the more work one did, the higher their points, which could be exchanged for more food. Of course, there were also rewards for good behavior, such as titles like "Workaholic" or "Lumberjack Champion," and the special detachment would even reward ice-cold Coca-Cola.
This motivated the captives to work hard. In fact, the rations provided by the special detachment were quite good, much better than what they were used to. Over time, they found the special detachment to be quite kind, knowledgeable, and respectful. Unlike their previous units, they did not beat or curse them. If someone fell ill, the special detachment even sent doctors to treat them. They also offered cultural classes to teach them to read and write, although in Chinese, which was difficult for them, many captives were moved to tears. Most of them were serfs on noble estates, usually farming or blacksmithing, and the idea of studying was something only nobles did.
More and more captives began to feel grateful to the special detachment, even wanting to stay with them for life. Under their efforts, new barracks rose on the Aslantis Highlands. Of course, the special detachment was no longer in the dark about this new world. They learned that their location was called the Aslantis Highlands, on a continent named Saint Roland, unified by the strongest person of all time, Saint Roland, two thousand years ago. It later split into three empires: Byzantium, Aragon, and France, as well as duchies affiliated with the three empires. Currently, Byzantium was the strongest, while the other two empires were on the brink of collapse due to Byzantine aggression.
"A Three Kingdoms scenario, huh?" Zhang Tianya laughed after hearing this: "Byzantium is Wei, and the other two are Shu and Wu. Let's also get involved in this muddy water and turn the tripartite stand-off into a four-way struggle!"
Zhang Tianya was confident that the special detachment could become a force on this continent. Seeing the camp becoming more and more organized, he felt it was time to implement his plan.
He sent out all the reconnaissance teams with the task of understanding the human and geographical conditions around the Aslantis Highlands, including the level of civilization, urban construction, ethnic composition, economic conditions, and so on. This was information the special detachment urgently needed, and it was also an instruction from their country to gradually make contact with the civilization of the new world.
Wang Dahai's third team was one of the first reconnaissance teams sent out. The team of six set off in two Mingshu military vehicles towards the south of the highlands.
The Aslantis region, including the highlands, covers an area of over three hundred square kilometers. The entire area is uninhabited, with only vast forests and grasslands, and the natural scenery is excellent.
After driving about a hundred kilometers from the special detachment's camp, the six of them noticed wisps of smoke rising in the distance, indicating a small village.
This was a peaceful and serene village. The great battle on the Aslantis Highlands seemed to have had no impact here. However, the arrival of the special detachment broke the tranquility of the village.
When Wang Dahai and his team stopped at the entrance of the village, the villagers were all shocked by the two large Mingshi vehicles, and they all ran to the entrance, looking at the military vehicles in confusion.
But when Wang Dahai jumped off the vehicle and gave the villagers what he thought was a very friendly and sunny smile, the villagers all ran away, leaving Wang Dahai quite embarrassed.
At this time, only a little girl with blonde hair and blue eyes was left at the entrance, staring at Wang Dahai with her big, watery eyes, as cute as a doll. Wang Dahai sighed quietly, thinking that maybe only little girls could appreciate his charm.
Wang Dahai grinned at the little girl, took out a piece of chocolate from his pocket, and said, "Little sister, do you want some candy?"
The little girl burst into tears, leaving Wang Dahai at a loss. At this moment, a woman in her thirties ran over, picked up the little girl, and ran back, as if Wang Dahai was a monster.
"Haha, Captain, your look is just like 'Shall we go to see the goldfish together, Uncle?'" Li MoMo laughed heartlessly from the vehicle.
Wang Dahai was speechless and could only lead the convoy slowly into the village. They found that although the buildings here were simple, they were full of exotic charm, with small round尖top roofs, red or yellow bricks, and walls covered with various colored flowers and plants, like a fairy tale world. It seemed that the great battle in Aslantis had not affected here.
The villagers watched the passing military vehicles, their eyes filled with fear, not knowing what these people dressed in strange green clothes were going to do.
The convoy stopped on a large flat area in the village, and several people carried out several large boxes from the vehicle, all of which were rice, candy, toys and other things. The villagers were secretly looking at them, although they were afraid, but they couldn't help their strong curiosity, what were these people dressed in strange green clothes doing?
After setting up several large boxes, Wang Dahai took out the language manual, cleared his throat and said in a stammering way, "People, come out, the Communist Party's army doesn't rob food!"
It was better when Wang Dahai didn't speak, and as soon as he opened his mouth, the few onlookers were scared away.
Now Wang Dahai was completely out of the way, he looked at his teammates for help, only to see Li MoMo and others looking at him with a look of fools, Wang Dahai helplessly took off his helmet to wipe the sweat, but found a petite figure squatting beside the Mingshu military vehicle looking at something.
This is a girl about fifteen or sixteen years old, with long sky-blue hair, big eyes, green eyes, a delicate little face, wearing a yellow and white long robe, holding a delicate staff in her hand, just like a fairy coming out of a Western painting, although the hem of the long robe has been washed curled, and there are several eye-catching patches, but it makes the girl more simple and beautiful, which made Wang Dahai look stunned.
The girl also found that Wang Dahai was looking at her, walked over with a light step, took Wang Dahai's hand and said, speaking very fast, with a bit of eagerness in her eyes, but Wang Dahai didn't understand what this fairy-like person was saying at all, only knowing that her voice was very pleasant.
"I said, sister, although I know that my brother is very handsome, you don't have to hold my brother's hand like this, there is a saying, men and women are not close to each other, girl. How about we get to know each other first?" Wang Dahai said with a pig's face, although he said not to hold hands, but his other paw has been on the girl's snow-white little hand.
Seeing that Wang Dahai didn't understand anything, the girl was anxious, took out a handful of crystal clear powder from her bag, sprinkled it towards Wang Dahai and others, before Wang Dahai and others didn't understand what was going on, they only heard the girl urgently reciting something, while waving the staff, the gemstone at the top of the staff suddenly shot out a dazzling light, followed by the powder emitting colorful light, very beautiful, the powder floated towards Wang Dahai and others, and soon disappeared on the top of several people.
"What's the situation?" Everyone was confused, at this time the girl said: "Are you the green-clothed people who came through the interdimensional door?"
"Ah? What, what are you talking about?" Wang Dahai was still immersed in the colorful colors just now, and suddenly reacted: "I can understand what you're saying!"
"Yes, this is called the spell of words, a kind of magic that can make people who don't speak the same language communicate with each other." The girl said with a sweet smile.
"Magic?" Everyone was stunned, and there was the legendary magic in this world, which was too amazing!
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